Reports & Academic Papers

The following reports and academic papers represent research on issues affecting the DC voting rights movement. These papers and their contents are the property of the individuals who wrote them. Please use citations as appropriate if you use any of the material in your own research. DC Vote makes no claim and holds no responsibility for the content of these papers.

• Financial & Structural Imbalance Reports
• Other Reports
• Academic & Other Papers

Financial & Structural Imbalance Reports

• A New Federal Contribution to the District of Columbia? The Need, Likely Impact, And Some Options, by Ed Lazare of the DC Fiscal Policy Institute and David Garrison of the Brookings Institution, dated November 2005 (PDF 92 kb)



• DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Structural Imbalance and Management Issues, by the U.S. Government Accounting Office (GAO), dated May 2003 (PDF 2 MB)



• A Sound Fiscal Footing for the Nation's Capitol: A Federal Responsibility, by Carol O'Cleireacain and Alice M. Rivlin, the Brookings Institution, dated October 2002 (PDF 116 kb)



• Assessing the District of Columbia's Financial Position: A Report to the Federal City Council by McKinsey & Company, Inc., dated April 19, 2002 (PDF 68 kb)



• Financing the Nation's Capital: The Report of the Commission on Budget and Financial Priorities of the District of Columbia, by Alice M. Rivlin, dated November 1990 (HIGH RESOLUTION - 95 MB)



• Financing the Nation's Capital: The Report of the Commission on Budget and Financial Priorities of the District of Columbia, by Alice M. Rivlin, dated November 1990 (LOW RESOLUTION - 22 MB)

Other Reports

• HIV/AIDS in the Nation's Capital: Improving the District of Columbia's Response to a Public Health Crisis, by the DC Appleseed Center for Law and Justice, Inc., dated August 2005 (PDF 1,080 kb)



• The Authority of Congress to Enact Legislation to Provide the District of Columbia with Voting Representation in the House of Representatives, by Viet D. Dinh and Adam Charnes, dated November 2004 (PDF 163 kb)
  
  

Academic & Other Papers

• Left with Few Rights: Unequal Democracy and the District of Columbia, by Eli Zigas, dated 2008 (PDF 1 MB)



• Seat of Democracy or Home of Hypocrisy? The Role of Race and Racism in the Struggle for Voting Rights in the District of Columbia, by Nell Schaffer, dated December 2005 (PDF 330 kb)



• The Courts Won't Grant D.C. the Vote - Adams v. Clinton and D.C.'s Remaining Options for Obtaining Congressional Representation, by Eli Zigas, dated May 2004 (PDF 119 kb)



• The Plight of DC: 600,000 People, 0 Votes, a student paper by Scott Caplan, Yale University, dated April 2004 (PDF 190 kb)



• The Debates over the Retrocession of the District of Columbia, 1801-2004, by Mark David Richards in the Washington History Journal, dated June 2004 (PDF 2 MB)



• Voter Disenfranchisement and International Law - The Peculiar Case of the District of Columbia, by Jonathon Foglia, dated 2003-2004 (PDF 177 kb)



• Voting Rights and Disenfrachisement, prepared by Charlie Sullivan and Timothy Cooper for the World Organization Against Torture, dated August 2001 (PDF 57 kb)

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